19-year-old charged with abusing 9-year-old

Around 8:30 p.m., Ulster County sheriff’s deputies said they saw Michael Mckevitt walking on Broadway with the boy, obstructing traffic. They stopped the two, aware that Mckevitt was a convicted sex offender. Deputies said their investigation found Mckevitt had been alone in his apartment with the boy earlier in the day and sexually abused him.

Mckevitt was arraigned in Town of Esopus Court on misdemeanor charges of sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest, plus the violation of disorderly conduct, and sent to county jail on $50,000 bail.